Ensemble OrQuesta’s Don Giovanni: Grimeborn Festival’s late-summer Mozart at Arcola Theatre

There’s a deconstructed vibe to Arcola Theatre’s Studio 1 – raw brick, concrete, wood and metal predominate – and, in answer to this, Marcio da Silva’s production of Don Giovanni…

Austen meets Dove: Mansfield Park at Guildhall School of Music & Drama

Jonathan Dove’s opera Mansfield Park (with libretto adapted from Jane Austen’s novel by Alasdair Middleton) was first performed in 2011 and commissioned by Heritage Opera – a perfect work for…

Teddy bears and flower arrangements: Larmes de Couteau and Full Moon in March at ROH’s Linbury Theatre

An evening of bracing 20th-century rules-out-the-window music-drama is always a good thing now and again, and the current production of a double bill – Bohuslav Martinů’s Larmes de Couteau and…